Public Address | Cafe | Access: The disabled soldier “problem” https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=341294#post341294 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=341294#post341294 Fri, 29 May 2015 15:51:40 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340542#post340542 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340542#post340542 Blog post by Te Papa curator Kirstie Ross also has links to several of the photos
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2015/05/16/end-of-the-road/#comment-136536

]]> Mon, 18 May 2015 13:58:52 +1200 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340470#post340470 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340470#post340470 John Masters kept the maps which were needed to prove Kiwi Troops were sprayed. He was known affectionately as Mother Hen.
http://rsa.org.nz/Community/AnzacoftheYearAward/Recipients/2010JohnMasters.aspx

]]> Sat, 16 May 2015 10:32:53 +1200 Robyn Hunt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340395#post340395 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340395#post340395 Thu, 14 May 2015 12:32:26 +1200 Martin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340323#post340323 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340323#post340323 Thanks for this excellent post Robyn.

I'm thinking of the families of the VietNam vets who are the inheritors of agent orange; of successive governments' neglect; of how loyalty often goes only one way between citizens and the State

]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 15:09:26 +1200 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340036#post340036 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=340036#post340036 I find June Tabor's version of that song deeply affecting, much more so than the usual ones.

I suspect that few to no soldiers come out of war unaffected, the few I've known have all had quirks as a result. And my grandparents were variously wounded, one grandfather dying early…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 16:32:40 +1200 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339992#post339992 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339992#post339992 Coincidently my bedtime reading over the past few months has consisted of three novels that feature characters deeply impacted by their war experiences.

Two are New Zealand novels, "Let the River Run", by Vincent O'Sullivan and "Newlands", by Gary Langford.

Both have characters who's war experiences have left them incapable…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 11:12:47 +1200 Robyn Hunt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339970#post339970 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339970#post339970 Wed, 06 May 2015 21:53:09 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339933#post339933 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339933#post339933 It sounds like an amazing exhibition; a shame the media paid it so little attention during the Gallipoli centenary. The Pogues version of ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ tears me up every time I hear it.

The same sort of thing prompted me to create this image.

]]> Wed, 06 May 2015 15:01:59 +1200 John Holley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339929#post339929 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339929#post339929 Wed, 06 May 2015 13:21:22 +1200 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339928#post339928 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339928#post339928 Wed, 06 May 2015 12:54:29 +1200 Renee Jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339921#post339921 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339921#post339921 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY ]]> Wed, 06 May 2015 11:38:11 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339911#post339911 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339911#post339911 That's a very moving little exhibition. As well as their weary gaze at the camera, the photos show their rough quality clothes and basic technology used to deal with the impairment such as prosthetic limbs. They were really at the forefront of that idea of rehabilitation.

There has been a…

]]> Wed, 06 May 2015 10:14:21 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339910#post339910 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-the-disabled-soldier-problem/?p=339910#post339910 Discussion from blog post.

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